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>>374872

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>>374805

>>374805
just a kid standing, whats so amazing about that

>Early Church sets its sights on converting Germanic Pagans in Europe
>Pagans celebrate their most important holiday of the year on December 25th, after the Winter Solstice
>The Church has Christmas laying around as an important holiday that the bible doesn't really give a defined date for
>Knows that the Pagans will probably try to keep celebrating their Solstice Holiday if they let them, so sets Christmas on the same day so they can only celebrate one or the other
>Lets them keeps their trees and yule logs and shit because who gives a fuck, just worship Christ

There you go

>>374564
Christmas is a glorified ad campaign

>>374564
Fucking christers ripping everything thing off then getting pissy when "their" holiday gets ripped off by consumers.

Daily reminder that the Christian god isn't real and you need to start posting your fedora folders.

>>374560

Just stop being a stubborn prick and rejoin the Mother Church already, OP

>>374567
I'm already part of it, dude. Rome didn't give birth to the Church.

>>374556
Aquinas was intelligent, if a bit misguided. Augustine is my personal favorite if only because he knew most of the Bible was bull even if he didn't want to believe it.

>>374556
John Calvin

Yes.

Yes, fuck your conspiracy theories

I'm not even 100% sure you exist.

The overall situation in Stilicho's time was already nightmarish. Plus, he was not that different from the other "generalissimos" (stealing O'Flynn term). He could have been a bit more successful in the short term, but no one had the strength or the resources to stop the overall decline for long.

For someone who tried (even if in a later date and in a shittier position), Majorian. And he got killed off by another warlord thanks to that.

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>>374519
>last great roman general

I wasn't aware we were making threads about Belisarius

>>376493
>Literally a whipped cvck

No thanks

Probably because of the HRE.

The sale of indulgences was probably very focused in Germany.

Because Germanics are no-fun-allowed autists.

Lots of Germanic kings who didn't want to be ruled by the pope or anyone else?

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It's amazing that a lot of people did great things at such a young age back then. I'm in my mid 20s and have been going through a huge existential crisis realizing what your average citizen at my age would have accomplished over 100 years ago. JUST is all I can say about myself.

Following his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson's body was preserved in a cask of brandy to allow transport back to England. Upon arrival, however, the cask was opened and found to be empty of brandy. The pickled body was removed and, upon inspection, it was discovered that the sailors had drilled a hole in the bottom of the cask and drunk all the brandy. Thus, this tale serves as a basis for the term "Nelson's blood" being used to describe brandy. It also serves as the basis for the term tapping the admiral being used to describe surreptitiously sucking liquor from a cask through a straw. The details of the story are disputed, as many historians claim the cask contained French brandy, whilst others claim instead the term originated from a toast to Admiral Nelson. Variations of the story, involving different notable corpses, have been in circulation for many years. The official record states merely that the body was placed in "refined spirits" and does not go into further detail.

>>374452
Are you me?

I know it's the cliche of all historical cliches, but after a thread here a while back I ended up reading a lot more about Alexander, and then realized he had already conquered Persia at my age.

>tfw you will never overextend Darius's flank and lead your cavalry in a glorious charge into his center
>tfw no Parmenian to be your wingman
>tfw you'll never weep because there are no more worlds to conquer

>>374174

DEFINE "HISTORICAL MUSIC".

Is there a particular period you're looking for?

>>374190
Old music, I suppose. Even something as recent as classic rock could be historical music, but it wouldn't be much fun to discuss that. I'd rather look at styles of music that are no longer extant today, yet have a big role in the genealogy of modern music. Classical (both with and without a capital C) would be a good example and obviously the first place to look. But I'd like to look back further.

This dude's work was basically looking at how Napoleon BTFO his side in battle he took part in and writting books about it

>>374058
Who do you think was a better military commander or strategist, Fredrick or Napoleon

I have his book although I guess the language very awful.

No. There are Winners if you can define victory terms though.

There are individual factoids we can all agree on maybe, but we will never agree on a single authoritative history.

Le war doesn't decide who's right, only who's left :^)

>>373963
It belongs in a museum.

>>373963
It belongs in a museum

>>373982
You belong in a meseum

>>373886

I think Shu-Han beats them all.

they literally all had a shot except for maybe the nazis, hitler just got fucked over because of his shitty diplomatic skills

but the answer is carthage

>>373891

Wasn't the question. No one cares about that part of the world. Stay on topic.

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>Dark Ages

>>373879
There certainly were what could be called a "dark ages", just not nearly as long as commonly depicted and less-expansive in topics it affected. Specifically, population and infrastructure suffered greatly.

I can tell you right now the Muslim presence in Iberia was a major benefactor for Christian Iberian technology. The christian refugees that migrated from the al-andalus brought with them lots of agricultural and technological advances.

Also, do you believe what's in your post? Because "islamic extremists" is about as damning as saying "the tyrannic sultan" considering there had been 9 crusades by that point.
And by 1453, we were already close to the renaissance, in 1514 Portugal took Ceuta which was the start of the Age of Discoveries.